My three year old had been at the Hornsey Day Nursery for over a year and has been very happy and well looked after there. We had been going to send him to the Asquith, but in the end had to find a place at very short notice and Hornsey Day had a va…

It is difficult. I think I'm reasonably open minded about most lifestyle choices: marriage/not, children/not home-ownership/not one job for fifty years/freelancing - all can be fine and respectable ways to live. Not having a cat though, that's just …

It is a lovely idea, though for small children reasons I won't be able to come. Still, here are my top 12
Donne, Auden, Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, William Empson, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling (I know, I know, but I think he's a weird mix of ov…